This listing is for Enya Moonshadows VHS Video Tape.

Directors: Michael Geoghegan

Format: Color, NTSC

Rated: NR - Not Rated

Number of tapes: 1

Studio: Reprise

VHS Release Date: February 18, 1992

Run Time: 25 minutes  

The music of Enya has mesmerised and captivated me since I first discovered it as support music for the BBC series The Celts and as backdrop music for the movie L.A. Story. The combination of vocal effects and modern recording techniques has produced a wonderfully rich, almost mystical sound. Her patience (one song on the Shepherd Moons CD has over 500 overdubs!) and skill are evident throughout each song on each of her CDs. This quality is not lacking on the video.Fortunately for Enya, MTV had not yet reached the 'rap-and-crap only' stage that it seems had developed as its style, when she put out her first videos.

While some of her song off The Celts had some video support, most recall as her first video the one accompanying Orinoco Flow. This visually unique and stunning piece is more like a moving painting. With images of the sea, opening flowers, hummingbirds, rainfall and of course the ship (this is a song about a journey), Enya's presence seems to float as moving painting across a brush-stroke sky at times stormy and at other times calm. The moon gracefully floats by with pastel clouds lightly obscuring the features. Finally, the sails flapping as Enya sings Sail away, sail away, sail away... is quite wonderful.

The next video, Exile, uses imagery from the movie L.A. Story. This is a very haunting piece of music, which has a personal meaning to me. I have a deaf friend who loved the cover of Enya's Watermark, and expressed to me that about the only regret he had in being deaf was not being able to hear such music. He could sense the vibrations, but stereo vibrations were rather indiscriminate. He suggested and I agreed to sing this song, as he put his hand on my throat, and he got a sense of the changes in the vibration pattern. I was so excited when this video was released, because he could also get a visual sense of the music. This video is good in both the sense of supporting the music and supporting the film for which it was used.

The video Storms in Africa, has deep red overtones, images of plains and desert, wildlife and sun, as Enya's celtic strains gently glide over a drum set reminiscent of African folk rhythms. Breaking into blue sky against the brown sandy desert, the scene shifts between animals, people, nature scenes, children, and lightning. Storms bring life in the desert, and this video helps capture a sense of the wonder of the life that such supports.

The video Evening Falls is another dark and haunting melody. This video is done primarily in duotone, against a fluid backdrop that gives a sense of impermanence and distance (...so far away). Candles light the way in the darkness, and an owl keeps vigil as Enya's soft voice sings of regret with the power only people such as the Celts seem to be able to conjure. As the candle is extinguished and all the lights dim, imagery of timeless stones and childhood dreams fill the evening air as the singer dreams of a home far away.

The final video, Caribbean Blue, returns to the style of the moving painting, done appropriately in primarily blue tones. The shifting sea, the sands and shore, all centering on the young boy watching the scene unfold in his massive books. Maxfield Parrish comes to life, as the butterfly chaser in the painting springs to life, the pond and forest maidens playful stop him from capturing nature but present him a camera as a better way. The boy steps into the painting and becomes a player himself. Of course, arriving at the Temple of Chocolate should thrill almost anyone, small boy or not! The fluid sky and the sparkles which seem to come from the magical Enya make this a wonderful accompaniment to a magical song.

The total running time for the video is only 25 minutes. But it is one that I watch over and over. Visually and musically stunning, it is a must have for any Enya fan.

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